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The Artaxian Mantra creates music that is visceral, powerful and spiritual, combining elements of rock, afro-beat, avante-garde jazz and world influences. The journey invokes a search for deeper meaning and spiritual expression, with an ambitious and unhinged imagination, not afraid to explore and improvise live. The band’s performance is unyielding, coupled with impassioned vocals, tense and vociferous one minute, frail and beautiful the next. Genevieve’s lyrics weave together stories of abandonment, poverty, freedom, mystical possession and love with clear evidence of the deep thinking philosophical approach to the music. Their independently released ‘Lunueo’ EP sees the band simultaneously becoming rhythmically and melodically more involved. It confirms the direction the band have created in recordings and in numerous energetic live performances, creating a template of many layers and textures, providing a more relevant representation of their current sound and future direction.